October Baby

This faith-based film soft-pedals the Christianity while playing to the anti-abortion faithful.

"...marketplace, but its message of forgiveness seems a sham since no one with the sin of abortion on their..."

April 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jane Eyre

The foggy moors are palpable, the passions less so, but this new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's oft-told story is a handsome addition to the canon.

"...38-chapter novel, and director Fukunaga in his sophomore feature (Sin Nombre) displays a firm visual hand and expressionistic mastery..."

March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Middle Men

Middle Men journeys backward in Internet history to 1995 when two coked-up ne'er-do-wells created the first dial-up, porn-on-demand website.

"...their success overwhelmed them: too much money and zero business skills. Enter Houston businessman and all-around fixer and family..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore wants to know where our money went.

"...that has only grown more so in the year since he began work on the project. Twenty years after..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Quantum of Solace

It's grim, dark, and relentlessly violent – James Bond as Terminator rather than Templar – but it delivers the goods in bloody high style.

"...knows what. I haven't seen star wattage this laser-focused since Gert Fröbe attempted unauthorized gender reassignment on 007 way..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fireproof

God helps a firefighter, played by Kirk Cameron, to repair his marriage.

"...full of the most degrading kinds of filth and sinful indulgence – men with guns, men with knives, men..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Dark Knight

The visuals soar and Heath Ledger's Joker is magnificent, although this Batman movie is grim and chilly, as if made for our age of anxiety.

"...Knight, a grim little parable on the wages of sin and the high cost of redemption. It is, of..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saw IV

Jigsaw died in Saw III but here we get to witness his autopsy, stem to stern, thus giving him not only the last laugh, but Being and Nothingness, as well.

"...psychotherapy has become, improbably, both box-office and gore-gazette gold since Bell debuted as Jigsaw in 2004. The series' increasingly..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ultimate Gift

In this inspirational film, a deceased tycoon's will decrees that his grandson perform a series of tasks to determine if the young man is worthy of inheriting the fortune.

"...effort from Fox Faith, whose distribution includes The Last Sin Eater and several upcoming titles aimed at banking off..."

March 16, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Amazing Grace

Unfortunately, what makes British abolitionist William Wilberforce a great man is also what makes him dull: his single-minded righteousness.

"...seductive Barbara Spooner (Garai) during the course of a single evening at his country estate, a narrative conceit that..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Heat Stroke

Austin's Amplified Heat turn both – their amps and the heavy metal heat

"...in Austin's Republic Studios working on debut In for Sin. Recorded in a month, Sin could be the soundtrack..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Order

Mysterious doings in a Catholic sect, on the whole more silly than scary.

"...Knight’s Tale, utilized much of the same cast to crowd-pleasing effect, and before that he penned the flawless script..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thirteen

Catherine Hardwicke directs her laser-beam gaze into the horrifically malleable soul of young girls caught in bad situations.

"...promiscuous sex, drug use, and all manner of familial disintegration. With her grades dropping like thongs on a bedroom..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ocean's Eleven

"...rakish scoundrels to rob not one, but three, of Sin City's heaviest-hitting casinos in one daring robbery (times being..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Freddy Got Fingered

"...I like most, if not all, of Green's creatively asinine shenanigans on the small screen; this big-screen debut, however,..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Dog of Flanders

"...start as any. There's also “shameless,” “silly,” and – sin of sins – “boring.” Add to that the film's..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Simple Plan

"...a close rein on the cash, as well as advising him to “put a little of it back” in..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Alarmist

"...by his more youthful sex drive. Perhaps the greatest sin of The Alarmist is its complete waste of Tucci..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Lilies

"...penitent, as it turns out, is not the man confessing, but rather the man hearing the confession. Theatrical but..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Angela

"...10-year-old whose world is falling apart. Angela's obsession with sin and its consequences results in visitations by Lucifer (Facinelli),..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions

"...means; it is simply a horrible movie. Plodding, fragmented, confusing beyond words, and finally, the ultimate sin, excruciatingly boring...."

Aug. 25, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Basketball Diaries

"...from activities such as stealing fenceable items from the opposing teams' lockers and sniffing glue and then vomiting on..."

April 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Circle of Friends

"...their bodies become “gardens for Jesus” or “vessels for sin”? O'Connor's instincts for telling this tale cinematically are right..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

No Escape

"...explosions ensue as our hapless Insiders fend off the increasing attacks from their enemies. There's little if anything new..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghost in the Machine

"...with its in-film logic, Ghost in the Machine's cardinal sin is in its complete lack of back story. To..."

Dec. 31, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Dangerous Woman

"...at points, a bit overwrought, it's a fairly easy sin to absolve in the face of the sheer talent..."

Dec. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

RoboCop 3

"...and partner. Comic book artist and writer Frank Miller (Sin City, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) co-wrote this story..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Especially on Sunday

"...barber is astounded to find himself obsessed with the missing animal and begins a search that eventually takes him..."

Oct. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Brother's Keeper

This documentary is about the unlikeliest of subjects: an alleged mercy killing between a pair of barely socialized, virtually illiterate, unkempt, unhygienic, slow-witted, never-married bachelors.

"...Directed by: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. The glaring mistake is last week's Oscar nominations was..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

"...in the Fields of the Lord commits the cardinal sin that befalls so many well-intentioned films based on highly..."

Jan. 24, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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